Word: careers
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...influence. The community can ill spare so conspicuous an example of conscientious fidelity in so many and so various trusts; and with his successive classes of pupils and his numerous friends he leaves a memory which will be a lifelong inspiration and incentive in every worthy endeavor and honorable career...
...find out whether the candidate has "a sound and accurate knowledge of these languages." There are twenty fellowships, of the value of five hundred dollars each, whose object "is to give to scholars of promise the opportunity to prosecute further studies, under favorable circumstances, and likewise to open a career for those who propose to follow the pursuit of literature or science." There are now in attendance twelve matriculated, and twenty-three unmatriculated students, besides twenty-nine college graduates not holding fellowships...
...have been obliged, therefore, to make up this year some of the work which I lost by this absence, and, among other things, to write a theme on one of the following subjects: "A Personal Experience," or "A Criticism on the Late Discussion." I thought over my eventful career, but could not recall any episode which seemed likely to edify my instructor, and so, although not knowing what the "Late Discussion" was about, I decided to take the second alternative. But as I ground up on the subject, I became deeply interested in it, - a thing which had never happened...
LAST fall the Rifle Club started upon a successful career, and we are not yet ready to pronounce it defunct. All that is necessary is for some one to display a little energy, effect a reorganization, and the interest to support the undertaking will be forthcoming. The sport is excellently adapted for this season of the year, and it should be remembered the weather will not hold this way forever. We hear that at Yale a rifle club has been formed, and there is a prospect - somewhat faint at present, but a prospect, nevertheless - of a shooting-match next spring...
...ourselves have not reflected as much credit upon us as usual, we seem more likely this year to carry away laurels from the contests before us with other colleges, than last year. Our Nine has already covered itself with glory, and has not yet been stopped in its victorious career. Success in the game with Yale on Monday will leave us, unquestionably, the winners of the base-ball championship. Of the success of our crew we can never be absolutely sure until the race is over. Diagonal lines will interfere with the best laid plans; but the work that...